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New book humanizes Canada’s most famous neurosurgeons, Wilder Penfield and William Cone

Title: The Mind Mappers: Friendship, Betrayal and the Obsessive Quest to Chart the Brain

Author: Eric Andrew-Gee

Genre: Non-Fiction

Publisher: Random House of Canada

Pages: 368

Eric Andrew-Gee's book recounts the story of Wilder Penfield’s work on the brain.

“There are more connections between the hundred billion neurons in a human brain than there are particles of matter in the known universe.” This description of the brain’s complexity appears late in Eric Andrew-Gee’s story of neurosurgeons Wilder Penfield and William Cone. Along with a reference to Emily Dickinson, who said the brain is “wider than the Sky,” the words serve to remind at once how little and how much we

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